Today the Galamsey of WestAfrica, the Igorot of the Philippines, and the Macuxi and Yanomami of the Amazon are similarly endangered. |
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There are also indigenous peoples like the Igorot, the Lumad, the Mangyan, the Bajau, and the tribes of Palawan. |
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The indigenous people of Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines are the Igorot people. |
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One of them is what I encountered in the Northern Philippines among the Igorot mountain tribes. |
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Backpacks were used by the Igorot peoples of Luzon, an island in the northern Philippines. |
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The tunnel was first dug by Igorot miners in the early 1900s on orders from General Douglas MacArthur, a military adviser to former president, Manuel Quezon. |
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